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Animated GIF for terminal recording

The LICECap is nice free little tool good to create animated gif show your terminal for example.

Fig 1: Python version on terminal
Fig 1: Python version on terminal

It is hard to find the similar

Diagrams and Charts

Although there are few diagrams types and charts, I am very happy with mermaid. The advantage of using mermaid is its dependency only on browser: no need to access outside services to create chart or diagram.

pie title Top 5 COVID-19 (31/05/2020)
    "USA" : 1815856
    "Brazil" : 498440
    "Russia" : 396575
  "Spain": 286308   
  "Rest of the world":2879467

It is hard to find similar free tools. If anyone knows, please don't forget to share with me.

Write a blog post

If you are interesting how I write my blog posts, please read the Markdown blog writer for blogger.

Math notations

Writing a maths on your site is awesome. I used to use MyScript MathPad (retired). MyScript has came up with really great idea of Web Demo for math as shown in the following fig 2.

Fig 2: MyScript Web Demo math web page
Fig 2: MyScript Web Demo math web page

I don't want to create an image for math, but need a \(\LaTeX\) code copy as shown in the step 2 in the Fig 2 shows. Above code will generate the following equation in the post

\[
\int ^{b}_{a}f'\left( x\right) dx=f\left( b\right) -f\left( a\right)
\]

The productivity secret is that I use iPencil to write the math equations on the MathPad and copy that as \(\LaTeX\) to the markdown editor.

Create step guides

Step by step guides are very common in most of the tech blogs. There are number of good commercial tools such as Snagit. However, there are number of free tools such as "Step Recorder" for Windows 10 and Preview for Mac.
For further information read How to create step guides.

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